Recipients addresses appearing since upgrade

[Ugo Bellavance]

<Top-posting on purpose>

Please guys, trim the unneeded part of the previous and avoid 
top-posting in your posts.

Ugo

Wayne wrote:
> At 17:42 23/09/2006, you wrote:
> 
> Yes, Jim I agree hello Julian any views on this problem.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Wayne
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> > > > >On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Wayne wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > > A serious situation has arisen since upgrading to 
>> Mailscanner 4,55
>> > > > > > the following details are being added
>> > > > > > to our mailing list postings: Example ....
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > >>X-Balita-MailScanner-To: aalicant at sakentz.com,
>> > > acarpio at us.imshealth.com,
>> > > > > > >>         adangoy at voyageur.ca, alablues at otelco.net,
>> > > alingdolly at yahoo.com,
>> > > > > > >>         almazan at uplink.net, alnoveloso at yahoo.com.au,
>> > > > > > >>         alophoixus at ukonline.co.uk and so on ........
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > It is obvious the MailScanner upgrade has altered a setting 
>> that was
>> > > > > > not set before.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > As a matter of urgency can someone tell me what it could be 
>> that
>> > > > > > needs altering back to its original state.
>> > > > >
>> > > > >I haven't come across this before, but the obvious place to 
>> look is in
>> > > > >MailScanner.conf:
>> > > > >
>> > > > ># Do you want to add the Envelope-To: header?
>> > > > ># This can be useful for tracking spam destinations, but should be
>> > > > ># used with care due to possible privacy concerns with the use of
>> > > > ># Bcc: headers by users.
>> > > > ># This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
>> > > > >Add Envelope To Header = no
>> > > > >
>> > > > >If you have that set to yes then that might explain your problem.
>> > > > >
>> > > > >Regards
>> > > > >
>> > > > >Jim Holland
>> > > > >System Administrator
>> > > > >MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service
>> > >
>> > >On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Wayne wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Thanks Jim
>> > > >
>> > > > Both the To and From Envelopes are set to no :-( even commenting 
>> the
>> > > > lines out with # seem to make no difference. Don't know if I should
>> > > > or not but after each alteration in .conf I am restarting 
>> MailScanner.
>> > >
>> > >Now it gets more difficult.  Is your MailScanner.conf file in the 
>> standard
>> > >place (/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf)?  Could there be another 
>> copy in
>> > >some other place that is being used instead?  Have you changed the 
>> type of
>> > >MailScanner installation between versions (eg using a tarball for 
>> one and
>> > >an rpm or other package for another)?  Perhaps you then have a 
>> situation
>> > >where you have a conflict between the old and new versions.
>> > >
>> > >In the meantime, if you are desperate, try stopping MailScanner,
>> > >commenting out the following section of the Message.pm file which 
>> should
>> > >be in /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner, and then restarting 
>> MailScanner:
>> > >
>> > >   # Do they all want the To header
>> > >   if (MailScanner::Config::Value('addenvto', $this) !~ /0/) {
>> > >     # Get the actual text for the header value
>> > >     foreach $to (@{$this->{to}}) {
>> > >       $tolist{$to} = 1;
>> > >     }
>> > >     $to = join(', ', sort keys %tolist);
>> > >
>> > >     $envtoheader = MailScanner::Config::Value('envtoheader', $this);
>> > >     # Now reflow the To list in case it is very long
>> > >     $to = $this->ReflowHeader($envtoheader, $to);
>> > >
>> > >     $global::MS->{mta}->ReplaceHeader($this, $envtoheader, $to);
>> > >   }
>> > >
>> > >Clearly the problem is that somehow the value of addenvto (which comes
>> > >from AddEnvelopeToHeader) is not zero.
>> > >
>> > >Regards
>> > >
>> > >Jim Holland
>> > >System Administrator
>> > >MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service
>>
>> On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Wayne wrote:
>>
>> > Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:27:18 +0100
>> > From: Wayne <wjohns at balita.ph>
>> > Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> > To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> > Subject: Re: Recipients addresses appearing since upgrade
>> >
>> > At 15:09 23/09/2006, you wrote:
>> >
>> > Jim
>> >
>> > Commenting out the section in Message.pm has eradicated the from and
>> > to envelopes.
>> >
>> > I don't think I have / had two MailScanner.conf files I have always
>> > used the RPM releases to upgrade, as far as I know the conf is
>> > located at /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf.
>> >
>> > It seems it all started when I was getting double messages and it was
>> > suggested I should use flock instead of posix for locking. My
>> > Sendmail is 8.12. Could be a coincidence :-)
>> >
>> > Many thanks for your most valued help it is appreciated.
>> >
>> > - Wayne -
>>
>> I am glad to have been able to help, but I think only Julian will be able
>> to get to the bottom of the original problem so it can be solved properly
>> rather than just using this quick and dirty hack.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Jim Holland
>> System Administrator
>> MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service
>>
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